The following persons are to be treated as one's father
जनिता चोपनेता च यस्तु विद्यां प्रयश्चति।अन्नदाता भयत्राता पञ्चैते पितरः स्मृताः॥चाणक्यनीतिjanitā copanetā ca yastu vidyāṁ prayaścati|annadātā bhayatrātā pañcaite pitaraḥ smṛtāḥ||caṇakyanītyāṁThe...
View Articlemusings 356
The best dissenting note is silence.I am surprised it took me more than six decades of life to realize that simple fact.I am here to live my own life and definitely neither clapping with or smirking at...
View ArticleDistraction happens first.. The result can be attraction or destruction too..
It is put very lucidly.. No disagreements.. The crunch lies in the fact that we are, even the best seekers among us are, only progressing towards our vedic-vedantic path to a minuscule and...
View Articlethe God of death captures him and takes him away
तं पुत्रपशुसंपन्नं व्यासक्तमनसं नरम्।सुप्तं व्याधो मृगमिव मृत्युरादाय गच्छति॥इन्द् स्प्र् २४९९ महाभारतेtaṁ putrapaśusaṁpannaṁ vyāsaktamanasaṁ naram|suptaṁ vyādho mṛgamiva mṛtyurādāya gacchati||ind spr...
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अकाले कृत्यमारब्धं कर्तुर्नार्थाय कल्पते।तदेव काल आरब्धं महतेऽर्थाय कल्पते॥२४ इन्दिशे स्प्रुचे महाभारतम्akāle kṛtyamārabdhaṁ karturnārthāya kalpate|tadeva kāla ārabdhaṁ mahate'rthāya kalpate||24 indiśe...
View Articlewhere those who do not deserve respect are given respect
अपूज्या यत्र पूज्यन्ते पूजनीया न पूज्यते।त्रीणि तत्र प्रवर्तन्ते दुर्भिक्षं मरणं भयं॥स्कान्दपुराणे॥apūjyā yatra pūjyante pūjanīyā na pūjyate|trīṇi tatra pravartante durbhikṣaṁ maraṇaṁ...
View ArticleMusings 357
Why should I care about how others take or accept me?First my value should be enough so that I can accept myself.Sense nuisance or nonsense for others would mean nothing for me in the long run .We...
View ArticleA soldier ceases to be a soldier if there is no battle for too long.
Our capacity to stand up and act would be effective only when we face challenges.. when the situation demands of is something more than what we think we can do.A soldier ceases to be a soldier if there...
View Articlethe source of knowledge which is infinite and imperishable
You are talking about the source of knowledge which is infinite and imperishable. But the receiver of knowledge tries to receive that with no effort at all and also tries to show off and impress others...
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only the individual can really gauge his real worth of knowledge. A taxman may assess the income and wealth of others but ..The real inner worth is known at least a little by the man himself. When the...
View Articleattempting to create special interest groups in the name of religion or...
Playing petty politics and attempting to create special interest groups in the name of religion or ethnicity is the sign of degradation in social and moral fabric.The idea of the welfare of the state...
View Articleजराग्रस्तं रूपं हसितललितोत्साहरहितं शिरः
जराग्रस्तं रूपं हसितललितोत्साहरहितं शिरः शुक्लीभूतं तिमिरपटलैरक्षि पिहितम्।शनैरभ्युत्थानं गतिरपि च मन्दाकुलपदा समीपस्थो मृत्युर्विलसति न चेच्छा विरमति॥jarāgrastaṁ rūpaṁ hasitalalitotsāharahitaṁ śiraḥ...
View Articlefrom gloom to gloom we travel
from gloom to gloom we travel..from the darkness of mothers wombto the labyrinthine dark maze of death..and we know that..sometimes there might be some bright patches in the middle of the journey..and...
View Articlemusings 359
Maybe I served in a small temple as an errand boy and assistant to the priest just to eke out a livelihood.But time has made a huge turnaround.After half a century and after retirement from government...
View ArticleThe web is a very funny place.
I was just replying to a friend who pondered whether it would amount to boasting if he clarified that a post in social media was created all by himselfI am sharing my answer to the query"The web is a...
View Articleअमृतसञ्जीवन धन्वन्तरिस्तोत्रम् १അമൃതസഞ്ജീവന ധന്വന്തരിസ്തോത്രമ്
अमृतसञ्जीवन धन्वन्तरिस्तोत्रम् १नमो नमो विश्वविभावनायनमो नमो लोकसुखप्रदाय ।नमो नमो विश्वसृजेश्वरायनमो नमो नमो मुक्तिवरप्रदाय ॥ १॥नमो नमस्तेऽखिललोकपायनमो नमस्तेऽखिलकामदाय ।नमो नमस्तेऽखिलकारणायनमो...
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॥ धन्वन्तरिस्तोत्रं ॥ओं नमो भगवते धन्वन्तरये अमृतकलशहस्ताय,सर्वामयविनाशनाय, त्रैलोक्यनाथाय श्रीमहाविष्णवे नमः ॥चन्द्रौघकान्तिममृतोरुकरैर्जगन्तिसञ्जीवयन्तममितात्मसुखं परेशं ।ज्ञानं सुधाकलशमेव च...
View ArticleIn fact a grihasta can assume sannyas in Hindu way only with the permission...
In fact a grihasta can assume sannyas in Hindu way only with the permission of his wife. I do not mean many Anandas giris paramahamsas etc who assume and declare that they are sannyasins and start...
View ArticleIf I refuse to learn, it is my funeral...
Maybe, the relevance of social media interactions lies in their actities that to encourage participants to read and view all the posts, pictures and media items published by any paeticipant....
View Articlea person is divested of his services under the state, he becomes a big zero
अप्रधानः प्रधानः स्यात्सेवते यदि पार्थिवम्।प्रधानोऽप्यप्राधानः स्याद्यदि सेवाविवर्जितः॥१७२ इन्द् स्प्रु पञ्चतन्त्रेapradhānaḥ pradhānaḥ syātsevate yadi pārthivam|pradhāno'pyaprādhānaḥ syādyadi...
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